jabber client from shell?

sedeuce · n00b Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 17

Hi All-

Does anybody know of a non-GUI based jabber client that could be used from a shell (non-X terminal)?

I suppose there is the option to just telnet to the jabber server and place a properly formatted XMMP message on the server, but it would be great if something out there already exists to handle the XMMP and save me from learning the syntax.

Any thoughts?
Thanks,
sedeuce

elykyllek · Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 3:10 am Post subject:

centericq

rnd · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject:

CJC -- nice client with an interface similar to irsii/bitchx -- http://cjc.jabberstudio.org/

IMcom -- nice client with an interface similar to micq -- http://imcom.floobin.cx/, or just type "emerge imcom"

xplosiv · n00b Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 29

I am looking for something similar, I want my linux box to be able to message me when there are important events (security etc), so I am looking for a very lightweight client, hopefully a shell script so there are no other dependencies ( and I don't need the GUI). Thanks!

BlackEdder · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 6:02 pm Post subject:

well there is a perl-icq module, maybe also a perl-jabber module (or better yet a ruby-jabber module) then you might be able to use that to write a simple script.

georwell · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 12:36 pm Post subject:

There is a perl module for Jabber. I use it all the time.

Konsti · l33t Joined: 10 Dec 2002 Posts: 691

also www.bitlbee.org is interesting